Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ξενικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξενικός ξενική ξενικόν

Structure: ξενικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for a stranger, of foreign kind, the taxes paid by aliens, the class of aliens, in which aliens sued or were sued
  2. hired for service, mercenary, a body of mercenaries
  3. hospitable, friendly, friendly relation
  4. foreign, alien, foreign, foreign, abounding in unusual words

Examples

  • Ἑκάβη, λεύσσεισ τήνδ’ Ἀνδρομάχην ξενικοῖσ ἐπ’ ὄχοισ πορθμευομένην; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests1)
  • ἐν ἱστορίαισ ὁ ἀναγνωστικόσ, ἐν τεχνολογίαισ ὁ γραμματικόσ, ἐν διηγήμασι ξενικοῖσ ὁ πολλὴν χώραν ἐπεληλυθὼσ καὶ πεπλανημένοσ. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 22 4:3)
  • ἐν ἱστορίαισ ὁ ἀναγνωστικόσ ἐν τεχνολογίαισ ὁ γραμματικόσ, ἐν διηγήμασι ξενικοῖσ ὁ πολλὴν χώραν ἐπεληλυθὼσ καὶ πεπλανημένοσ. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 22 12:1)
  • αἱ δὲ δὴ συνᾴδουσαι τοῖσ ξενικοῖσ γράμμασι μηνύσεισ παρὰ τῶν ἐνθάδε τίνεσ τ’ εἰσὶ καὶ ὑπὸ τίνων γενόμεναι; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 13 4:1)
  • καὶ τὸ χρῆσθαι συσσίτοισ καὶ συνημερευταῖσ ξενικοῖσ μᾶλλον ἢ πολιτικοῖσ τυραννικόν, ὡσ τοὺσ μὲν πολεμίουσ τοὺσ δ’ οὐκ ἀντιποιουμένουσ ‐ ταῦτα καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα τυραννικὰ μὲν καὶ σωτήρια τῆσ ἀρχῆσ, οὐθὲν δ’ ἐλλείπει μοχθηρίασ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 5 292:1)

Synonyms

  1. hired for service

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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